On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:14 PM, nixlists <nixmli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Denis Doroshenko
> <denis.doroshe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> aren't you missing the point of original comment made by Otto?
>>
>> consider a situation, when all the processes in the system "are
>> behaving", none of them violates their rlimits, but they all together
>> have allocated more memory than the box contains (RAM + swap).
>
> The idea is to limit memory such that running out of RAM+swap is not
> possible, or unlikely. You can set the limit on the allowed number of
> processes as well.
$ ulimit -m
971876
$ dmesg | grep real\ mem
real mem = 1039691776 (991MB)
So... this box should run only one process?
$ ps -auxww|wc
54 713 4936
If I were to use the max memory usage of each process, I would need a
53Gig ram machine?
--
http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
"This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity."
-- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation.
"Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or
internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks
factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford
learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
